Phishing email?

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ColPrice2002

Well-known member

• Dec 3, 2021

• #1

I'm subscribed to the newsletter and receive the emails from N3V, but this morning I received one from "Trainz", with a lot of Outlook formatting/layout text at the beginning. Then it had the 20th Anniversary pictures and links.

Anyone know if this is genuine? - or is it a naughty email?

Thanks,

Colin

 

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euromodeller

Imagineer

• Dec 3, 2021

• #2

Probably Phishing.

Hover your mouse over the links (don't click) and look at the bottom left of your screen.
In firefox you can see the address that the link points to, if dodgy mark as spam, then empty your spam folder.

Cheers.
Graham

 

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pware

Trainz Veteran

• Dec 3, 2021

• #3

Probably a genuine email that got "garbled in transmission". I also received the regular email with the 20th Anniversary pictures and links.

 

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ColPrice2002

Well-known member

• Dec 3, 2021

• #4

Thanks all,

I've just opened the email on the PC - this morning I was using the tablet - both have Spam/virus checkers, but the tablet is more limited.

It's a genuine email from "Trainz <newsletters@trainzportal.com>" - and in outlook it's perfectly formatted - not in GMail....
All the links check out - non blocked, so it's all good.

Thanks again,

Colin

 

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pware

Trainz Veteran

• Dec 3, 2021

• #5

Yes, it is better to be too cautious than not.

 

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UnumProvident155

SP 4449 fan

• Dec 3, 2021

• #6

I one time got a message about my Gmail account getting deactivated and the message was fake and I deleted it

 

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Forester1

Well-known member

• Dec 3, 2021

• #7

I must say I thought the 20th Anniversary announcement was underwhelming. No nice anniversary loco or consist or anything, just options on how to buy.

 

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hert

Screenshot Creator

• Dec 4, 2021

• #8

Forester1 said:

I must say I thought the 20th Anniversary announcement was underwhelming. No nice anniversary loco or consist or anything, just options on how to buy.

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More happy that more resources are going into to make TS19 SP5 and TS22 much better. Then diverting them for gimmick content that people would complain about anyways.

 

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Forester1

Well-known member

• Dec 4, 2021

• #9

True that, I suppose. Still underwhelmed with 20th anniversary purchase options, but it is what it is.